Leaders of three more tribes have signed a treaty guiding restoration of buffalo populations in the U.S. and Canada.
Cleanup requirements are holding up the sale of a bankrupt coal company's mines in Wyoming and Appalachia.
The group tasked with addressing Montana's backlog of untested rape kits is planning a series of statewide trainings and revamping the sexual assault investigation training for police officers in the state.
State and tribal officials announced Thursday that a boat carrying invasive zebra mussels slipped through two Montana inspection stations, but inspectors in Ravalli found the mussels and decontaminated the vessel.
The Custer Gallatin National Forest will open part of a controversial trail Friday in the Crazy Mountains.